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I want it to just load and be "ready", and let me possibly skip to the track I want. I will probably never buy a combo drive in the future if I can help it, even if I have to hunt down generations-old devices on eBay to get a separate CD player, separate DVD player, and separate VCR. The picture quality is good. The remote control has all these functions, but I loathe devices that depend on the remote control as the only source of certain important functions. I bought this to have a means to play CDs, DVDs and VCR tapes in one compact box.
That has been the trend to cut costs on these cheap units, because front panel controls are expensive compared to putting them on a remote.I also don't like the "standby" type of power switch. When you insert a CD or DVD, it takes the drive a long time to figure out which it is and start to play it. How about just "On/Off".In short, there are too many hidden/automatic/nonavailable/weirdly labeled things about this that make it awkward to use. They work much better that way and have controls that humans intuitively understand. With the "auto play all the time" behavior, I constantly have to make sure the volume is down, stop it, advance it, turn the volume back up. The front panel controls are very limited.
I haven't even used the record function, and probably never will. I'd say about 30 seconds, and that is unacceptable.2. There is no pause button, and the FF/RWD CD controls advance through the current song, but there is no separate "skip" button. I just wanted a VCR drive in there to play any "legacy" tapes I still have lying around.It works. AWKWARD.3. Often, I don't want it to do that.
But.1. Once it recognizes a CD, it automatically starts to play it.
The display counter goes to 00:01 on both the DVD and VHS sides, and that's it, nada. Doubt if Best Buy will do anything either. DO NOT buy this machine. Toshiba only has a 90 day warranty, and since we don't watch many movies, I'm SOL. Total garbage I purchased mine at Best Buy in late July, watched exactly one DVD on it, and now it won't play anything, anywhere, anytime. I tried resetting it, hooking it to 3 different TV's, hooking it through different cables, and nothing.
6th Avenue does not consider unusual circumstances - only the miniscule manafacturer warantee. Since the warantee is for 90 days only, I am out the full purchase price. Do not buy the SD-V295KU DVD Video Player & Video Cassette Recorder. Purchased from Amazon thru third party 6ave.com. After less than 4 months of use, it "ate" one of my VCR tapes (could not eject it).
I do not recommend this product.90 DAY WARRANTY. Toshiba SD-V295 Tunerless DVD VCR Combo Player.I have never been so disgusted with the setup of this machine. CHANGE THAT TO ZERO STARS. MINE DIED ON DAY 120. After a month, sometimes it will tape and sometimes not. All the wires are hooked properly, but yet it seems to have a mind of its own.
I really do NOT like this product. I had my cable box checked and there is nothing wrong with it. I am not sure exactly what happened that would make it do that. I am stuck with it the warranty is out and I am not gonna pay out more money to have it fixed when Toshiba should learn how to make GOOD products. And you can't hear anything from all the noise. I had bought this DVD/VCR in Feb 08, @ HH GREGG/ to replace the one my parents got me when I was 12 years old.
I have had to throw away at least 10 of my tapes because this product has messed them up. I am really really upset with this. (13 years ago) My sister had a Toshiba and she said it was a good product. I looked over the manual to make sure all hook ups were donr right and they are. I do not reccommend this product. So I bought it and I regret it.
Also when I try to tape my shows on the VCR and watch them the next day the tape jumps and there are lines that look like it is trying to track the tape by itself when I had just bought the tape.
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